I loved making art as a child. I was making art and doing graphic design in my twenties. I went to college and studied drawing and painting, then film and animation, in the 1980s when I was in my thirties. That early work is mostly work on paper with ink, pencil, marker, or crayon. After college I did a lot of graphic design and later (starting in 1996) also web design for others. Then in 2016 when I was 64 years old I purchased an iPad Pro tablet and started making artworks for myself again.
These galleries below include some of my works which are created digitally and also some of my older work.
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My husband Alec Clayton, novelist, artist, theater and art critic, and author of What the Heck is a Frame-Pedestal Aesthetic? and As If Art Matters: Modern and post modern art reviews and commentary, wrote in a Facebook post on February 12, 2020:
My wife, Gabi Clayton, makes art. For all the thirty some odd years that I was painting and exhibiting my paintings in galleries, hardly anybody even knew she was an artist too. She majored in art in college during her first two years, and then she switched her major to film with an emphasis on animation. In her freshman and sophomore drawing and design classes she made art that was surprisingly good―so unique, in fact, with a signature style recognizable from the start, that I’m not sure anybody recognized how good it was.
After graduating, she went to graduate school to become a mental health counselor, and she did graphic art―websites, brochures, etc., but for decades she never made art as “fine art” and she never attempted to get her art in galleries. Then a couple of years ago, she started creating art on her iPad and started posting a few of them on Facebook. And people liked them. They liked them a lot.
Then on February 12, 2023, Alec added to that post:
I was wrong when I wrote, “I’m not sure anybody recognized how good it was.” I’m sure at least two of her teachers recognize just how good she was. And I think further education in visual art would have hampered her natural talent.
On January 9, 2023, he wrote in another blog post:
Most of her work is figurative, picturing distorted and often comical images of animals and people, sometimes combined with words, and less frequently purely abstract paintings with pixels. There is ample historic precedence for such work. First to come to mind are The Hairy Who, and the Chicago Imagists: Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Gladys Nilsson; the great Phillip Guston, drawings by Saul Steinberg, and the painted poems of Kenneth Patchen, whom she acknowledges as an early and continuing influence.
— Alec Clayton in Gabi’s Art is the Real Deal (opens in a new tab on Alec’s website, and here as a PDF file).
I have been sharing my newer art on my Facebook account which is here,
on my Instagram account which is here, and on my Threads account here.
I’m a member of The Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts.
Watch Gabi and Alec Clayton ~ Collection Tour and Reading ~ filmed on April 21, 2020:
Episode 8 on SPSCC Art ~ Creative “Something” ~ A Zoom Event now on YouTube
On September 30, 2024 the article, “Form & Pose: Joint Show of the Works of Gabi and Alec Clayton” by Lynette Charters Serembe was published in OLY ARTS online magazine.
There is an exhibit of Alec’s and my art at the Rex & Rose coffee shop in downtown Olympia in September and October 2024. This is the first time we have shown our art together other than in our home. Photos — left: Alec and I at the Rex & Rose counter, Alec’s art on the wall; right: me under a wall of prints of my art. Photos by Lynette Charters Serembe.
Some of my images are — or can be — available as prints or on t-shirts and more. Some is available on my Redbubble shop. Let me know if you are interested in purchasing my art by using this contact form.